JAGGED TIMELINE
JAGGED TIMELINE
ROBERT GIBBONS
This bilingual volume introduces the work of American prose poet Robert Gibbons to a transatlantic audience. The volume shows how multifaceted a poet he is, effortlessly exploring political, aesthetic and emotional themes, such as war, poverty, exile, work, love and the archives of Time.
Presenting Danish translations of 64 of the poet’s best pieces, juxtaposed with the American original versions, the book also contains a lengthy scholarly introduction by the editor and translator, Bent Sørensen, forming the first sustained academic study of Gibbons’ work.
6×9” | B&W | 182 pp
ISBN 978-8799245673
CATEGORY
Poetry & translation
EDITION
Standard paperback 2010 | $15
NOTE
Bilingual translation English–Danish
REVIEWS
Time here both exists and un-exists. Gibbons's strength consists of combining dichotic oppositions outside of the structure where oppositional thinking rules. One reads 'Jagged Timeline' almost with the eyes closed and the senses sharpened and aroused. These are poems that take us through other voices and other rooms as well, and Gibbons shows his mastery at what's going on in terms of time-trajectories where literary history is concerned. Bent Sorensen's translation, juxtaposing the text, and introduction to Gibbons's work, are superb. — CAMELIA ELIAS, Cercles
